This might be a persistent vegetative state with no possibility of turning it on, even in principle.

这可能是个持续性植物状态,即便原则上，都没有可能重启开关。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well, the first thing that I noticed, they have been going wrong for a while.

据我观察，首先，这种状态其实已经持续了一段时间了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

People in the state of nature may have regular and continual contact with one another.

在自然状态中的人们可能互相,有定期并持续的联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It's in light of this ongoing cultural tension in the period that, I think, we can understand some of the strange confusions concerning chastity that we find in the poem that we're looking at.

根据那年代持续的文化紧张状态，我认为我们可以理解那些,在诗中读到的涉及贞节的困惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There we are in Phase D,in something like, perhaps,persistent vegetative state.

这就是D阶段，可以叫做，持续植物人状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选